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    Never Fuck Up: A Novel

    Written by Jens Lapidus

    Narrated by David Ackroyd

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    About this audiobook

    From Sweden's internationally best-selling crime novelist, the author of Easy Money, comes the riveting second installment of the Stockholm Noir Trilogy. With his trademark live-wire staccato prose and raw energy, Jens Lapidus returns to the streets of Stockholm with an electrifying tale of seedy police officers and vicious underworld criminals.
     
    Mahmud, an iron-pumping gym fiend raised among the city's many concrete high-rises, is fresh out of jail and heavily indebted to a Turkish drug lord. To get free he accepts a job from the henchman of brutal mob boss Radovan-a job that quickly becomes something Mahmud wishes he'd never agreed to.
     
    Meanwhile, Niklas is living at home with his mother and keeping a low profile after working as a security contractor in Iraq. When a man is found murdered in the laundry room of their building-a startling event that coincides with Niklas's discovery of a young Arab girl being beaten by her boyfriend-Niklas decides to put his weapons expertise and appetite for violence to use and begins to mete out his own particular brand of justice.
     
    Thomas is the volatile cop called to investigate the murder in Niklas's building. When his efforts are suspiciously stymied and the evidence tampered with, he goes off the grid in search of answers. As the identity of the murdered man is discovered, the paths of these three men intertwine, and crimes and secrets far greater than a mere murder come to light-raising the stakes of Stockholm's criminality to staggering new heights.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 18, 2013
    ISBN9780307966711
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    Never Fuck Up: A Novel
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    Jens Lapidus

    Jens Lapidus is the man behind the most talked about Swedish first novel in a decade: Easy Money – the first of the internationally bestselling Stockholm Trilogy - is a dark and brutal account of the Stockholm underworld. A young and highly successful criminal defense lawyer, Lapidus’ professional experience of representing some of the most notorious criminals in the country has given him unique insights into a world that most people would rather not acknowledge. Jens Lapidus lives in Stockholm with his wife.

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    • 4/5
      The one who expects a `normal` scandinavian crime story will be disappointed because it`s nothing like that. Like the other books of the trilogy, it`s more like a crime-thriller in which the life of three people (a petty criminal immigrant, a psycho ex-soldier and a bad cop) intertwine fatally in the Stockholm underworld.
    • 4/5
      Lapidus' first novel, Snabba Cash, was nothing short of a revelation - "what, a Swede can write like this!?" It even started a new genre in Sweden, "Stockholm Noir," since Lapidus did with Stockholm what James Ellroy has done with Los Angeles. This second novel follows the same format (three main characters telling the story in separate chapters) and has a few characters in common (we still follow Mahmud in the first person and the others from Snabba Cash have cameos) and the story again deals with the underbelly of Stockholm. Is it as good then? Not quite, unfortunately. The story is a little too similar to its predecessor, not just the format. And (and this is a big "and"), the humor just isn't there in the same way it was in Snabba Cash. For a sophomoric novel, though, it's still a great read, and I can't wait until Lapidus gets translated into English so I can share with my fellow (non-Nordic) readers (keeping my fingers Xed in hopes that there is a translator out there who is adequately knowledgeable about gang-slang to do a proper job!).